Bert Sakmann

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Bert Sakmann
Born	(1942-06-12) 12 June 1942 (age 81) Stuttgart, German Reich
Awards	W. Alden Spencer Award (1983) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1986) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1988)[1] Harvey Prize (1991) Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1991) ForMemRS (1994)[2]
Scientific career
Institutions	Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology University College London
Website	www.neuro.mpg.de/sakmann

Bert Sakmann (German pronunciation:

Afterwards (still in 1974), Sakmann returned to the lab of Otto Creutzfeldt, who had meanwhile moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Sakmann joined the membrane biology group in 1979.

In 1990 he accepted a position at the Faculty of Natural Science Medicine at Heidelberg University. One year later, he became a full university professor at the Faculty of Biology in Heidelberg.

On 2 June 2009, Peter Gruss, the president of the Max Planck Society, announced that Sakmann would serve as the scientific director of the Max Planck Florida Institute, the organization's biomedical research facility at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida.

Sakmann is the founder of the Bert-Sakmann-Stiftung.

Awards and honors

In 1986, Sakmann and

External links

Scholia has an author profile for Bert Sakmann.

• Bert Sakmann on Nobelprize.org